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The carceral experiences of women serving life sentences. 2017 Michigan Notable Book Selection presented by The Detroit Free PressHow do women – mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces and grandmothers – make sense of judgment to a lifetime behind bars? In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert presents a typology of the ways that life-sentenced women grow and self-actualize, resist prison definitions, reflect on and “own” their criminal acts, and ultimately create meaningful lives behind prison walls. Looking beyond the explosive headlines that often characterize these women as monsters, Lempert offers rare insight into this vulnerable, little studied population. Her gendered analysis considers the ways that women “do crime” differently than men and how they have qualitatively different experiences of imprisonment than their male counterparts. Through in-depth interviews with 72 women serving life sentences in Michigan, Lempert brings these women back into the public arena, drawing analytical attention to their complicated, contradictory, and yet compelling lives.Women Doing Life focuses particular attention on how women cope with their no-exit sentences and explores how their lifetime imprisonment catalyzes personal reflection, accountability for choices, reconstruction of their stigmatized identities, and rebuilding of social bonds. Most of the women in her study reported childhoods in environments where violence and disorder were common; many were victims before they were offenders. Lempert vividly illustrates how, behind the prison gates, life-serving women can develop lives that are meaningful, capable and, oftentimes, even ordinary. Women Doing Life shows both the scope and the limit of human possibility available to women incarcerated for life.

Women prisoners --- Life imprisonment --- Female offenders --- Imprisonment --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Prison sentences

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"The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back." Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps: starved, traumatized, and worked nearly to death. A story like Ilse Johansen's is rarely told-of a woman caught in the web of fascism and communism at the end of the Second World War and beginning of the Cold War. The candid story of her time as a prisoner, written soon after her release, provides startling insight into the ordeal of a German female prisoner under Soviet rule. Readers of memoir and history, and students of feminism and war studies, will learn more about women's experience of the Soviet gulag through the eyes of Ilse Johansen.

Women political prisoners --- Women prisoners --- Prisoners --- Memoir / World War II / Women's Studies.

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This title focuses on developments since the publication of the 2007 Corston Report into women and criminal justice. The challenges of working with women in the current climate also explored, translating lessons from good practice to policy development and recommending future directions arising from the 'Transforming Rehabilitation' plans.

Female offenders --- Prisoners --- Women prisoners --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Governmental policy --- Government policy --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Persons --- Delinquent women --- Offenders, Female --- Women --- Women criminals --- Women offenders --- Criminals --- Inmates --- Crime

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"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Exposed to violence and rape, subjugated on chain gangs and as convict laborers, and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and debasement. Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life"--

Women prisoners --- African American prisoners --- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration --- African American women --- Race discrimination --- Sex discrimination against women --- Prison sentences --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Abuse of --- Abuse of. --- Sentences, Prison --- Afro-American prisoners --- Prisoners, African American --- Sentences (Criminal procedure) --- Prisoners --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women

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This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland. Through the voices of female and male combatants, it demonstrates that women remained marginal in the examination of imprisonment during the Conflict and in the negotiated peace process. However, the book shows that women performed a number of roles in war and peace that placed constructions of femininity in dissent. Azrini Wahidin argues that the role of the female combatant is not given but ambiguous. She indicates that a tension exists between different conceptualisations of societal security, where female combatants both fought against societal insecurity posed by the state and contributed to internal societal dissonance within their ethno-national groups. This book tackles the lacunae that has created a disturbing silence and an absence of a comprehensive understanding of women combatants, which includes knowledge of their motivations, roles and experiences. It will be of particular interest to scholars of criminology, politics and peace studies.

Social sciences. --- Peace. --- Terrorism. --- Political violence. --- Crime --- Organized crime. --- Corrections. --- Punishment. --- Sociology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Gender identity. --- Social Sciences. --- Crime and Society. --- Prison and Punishment. --- Gender Studies. --- Organized Crime. --- Terrorism and Political Violence. --- Peace Studies. --- Sociological aspects. --- Social conflict --- Women political prisoners --- History --- Irish Republican Army. --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Armata repubblicana irlandese --- Armée républicaine irlandaise --- I.R.A. --- IRA --- Official IRA --- Oglaig na h-Éireann --- Criminology and Criminal Justice. --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Penalties (Criminal law) --- Penology --- Corrections --- Impunity --- Retribution --- Correctional services --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Crime syndicates --- Organised crime --- Criminal sociology --- Criminology --- Sociology of crime --- Sociology --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- War --- Psychological aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Irish Volunteers --- Provisional IRA --- Political prisoners --- Women prisoners --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Crime—Sociological aspects. --- 1900-1999 --- Northern Ireland. --- G.N.I. --- GNI --- Irlande du Nord --- Kita Airurando --- Kitairurando --- Nordirland --- Norlin Airlann --- Pohjois-Irlanti --- Severna Irlandii͡ --- Tuaisceart Éireann